Russian military bases
Russian bases shown on the Newslyfe map include domestic facilities, bases in post-Soviet states, and overseas access points such as Syria.
Bases
Khmeimim Air Base
Russian air base near Latakia, Syria.
Read Guide →Baikonur Cosmodrome
World's oldest spaceport, on Kazakh territory leased to Russia until 2050.
Read Guide →4th Guards Military Base
Russia's main garrison in South Ossetia, Georgia's Russian-backed breakaway region.
Read Guide →7th Military Base
Russia's main garrison in Abkhazia, Georgia's Russian-backed breakaway region on the Black Sea.
Read Guide →102nd Military Base
Russia's primary garrison in Armenia, in Gyumri — its last major military foothold in the country.
Read Guide →Baranavichy Radar Station
Russian-operated early-warning radar on leased Belarusian territory, near Hantsavichy.
Read Guide →Kant Air Base
Russian-operated airfield in Kyrgyzstan, the aviation hub of the CSTO's rapid-deployment forces.
Read Guide →201st Military Base
Russia's largest permanent military installation outside its own territory, split between Dushanbe and Bokhtar.
Read Guide →3624th Air Base
Russia's only combat aviation foothold in the South Caucasus, at Erebuni Airport near Yerevan.
Read Guide →Operational Group of Russian Forces
Russia's unrecognized military presence in Transnistria, the breakaway strip of Moldova.
Read Guide →Sary-Shagan Test Range
Vast anti-ballistic missile and air-defense test range on Lake Balkhash, Kazakhstan.
Read Guide →Shayrat Air Base
Syrian airfield southeast of Homs, target of a 2017 U.S. missile strike after briefly hosting Russian aircraft.
Read Guide →Tartus Naval Base
Russia's Mediterranean naval foothold in Syria, leased for decades, now in flux after Assad's fall.
Read Guide →Tiyas Air Base (T4)
Syria's largest airbase, a strategic crossroads with a shifting history of foreign military use.
Read Guide →Vileyka VLF Transmitter
Russian Navy submarine-communications facility on Belarusian soil, built in 1964.
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